Hi Erik

>No, but the database property tells you which dbc it belongs to, which is all you should need to know, because views can pull data from sources outside the dbc.
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>This one will be very difficult for me to debug, because it looks like something is going on in your runtime envirnment that oyu are not aware of (so I'm not either). YOu have demonstrated in the command window that the fault does not lie with the view...

I've decided to take another approach - I'm going to create a temporary dbc and programmatically create the views in that dbc when the application starts up. I'll then use those views throughout the application.

I'll post here on the success or otherwise of this approach.

Best.

Matt.